Thats the elephant in the room with all this. Ray Rice was done anyway. Theres a good chance the Ravens would have elected to just take the dead money instead of paying him $3M to play next year even if he never did any of this.

If I see a guy who works at Home Depot hit a woman like that, I seriously don't care about his earning potential either.

Yeah but the ones who know better don't appeal to that magical old white male demo.

It's not a coincidence that media outlets that cover football pay guys who think like Ditka to talk all the time. It's also not a coincidence that Ray Rice got 2 games while Gordon got a year.

lol so most athletes end up spending poorly and making terrible investments, but somehow, Ray Rice is guaranteed to put his money to work for him and use his $14M to make money, instead of blowing it all?

I'd actually bet he'll be broke within 5 years, but I don't feel sorry for him in the least.

Mike Ditka doesn't know Ray Rice, he's seen the video of him knocking a woman out, and he's "sure he's a good guy who just made a bad mistake?"

meant Wycheck not Wright obv

How was that Auburn finish "a mathematical impossibility"? Before that kick, Auburn had about a 50% chance to win the game, doesn't really seem improbable in any way.

That's precisely the reason that this is so weird though. You can't just yell at a bunch of guys to start hitting better when there are guys on base, thats not how baseball works, you'd think the coach at one of the nation's top programs would comprehend that.

Anyone saying anything about freedom of speech here is way off base. Freedom of speech means the government isn't going to come get you and throw you in jail for what you say. Not one single person has suggested this guys freedom of speech should be infringed on in any way.

I don't understand why you are assuming that if Teo was behind this, it had to be because he was gay. Thats just bizarre. It logically looks like he was behind it, I think the glaringly positive publicity he got all season was his motivation though.